Adobe Flex (formerly Macromedia) is a tool for writing "Rich Internet Applications" (or RIAs). This is a buzzword that means a normal application like interface but via the web - kind of like AJAX stuff. The difference is that Flex applications compile down to a Flash (SWF) file. The advantage of this is that the performance is much better than that of a pure Javascript/HTML app, and the Flash Player is very ubiquitous, so chances are your users will have no problem using your Flex front end. The only negative is that Flex 2 requires Flash Player 9, which doesn't quite have the penetration that Flash 7 and 8 do at this stage.
Being a Domino developer, the first thing I had to try was how hard it would be to get at Domino data using Flex. Short answer: not too hard!
Okay, so this is technically Show-n-tell Tuesday (Australian time), but I was working out some kinks.
Continue reading Domino: Accessing Domino Views from Adobe Flex applications
Posted by Marcin on
14/11/2006 @ 20:19 +1100
Tags: tech, domino, show-n-tell thursday, sntt, flex, xml
We had a discussion at work recently about whether it is faster to stampAll for multiple fields, or to update the fields and then save. The short answer? If you're updating fewer than 5 fields it is faster to stampAll rather than update the document and save. For the long answer, read on for some comparisons and ugly standard Excel graphs due to lack of time.
Continue reading Domino: "stampAll" vs "replaceItemValue and save" speed comparison
Posted by Marcin on
14/09/2006 @ 21:14 +1000
Tags: tech, domino, show-n-tell thursday, performance
I was having a look at how hard it is to encrypt something using asymmetric encryption (that is, public key / private key encryption) using Java. Turns out that it's not too hard at all, but as with all Java stuff it's a whole load of Factories and abstractions to get there. I also discuss how this stuff can be used with Domino, just so I can make this my first "Show and Tell Thursday" article!
Continue reading Using Public Key encryption in Java
Posted by Marcin on
07/09/2006 @ 18:44 +1000
Tags: tech, java, domino, security, show-n-tell thursday